Large Event Encourages Instances of Child Sex Trafficking and Prostitution

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

BREWSTER — A promise of an Uber ride to an Atlanta hotel by 24-year-old Mitchell Allen Kennedy as he spoke to an undercover policewoman posing as a 14-year-old is in contrast with his family’s version of what happened before Kennedy’s Feb. 3 arrest in Georgia on a charge of computer pornography.

That scenario and other, more explicit details are alleged in a police report and in the warrant for Kennedy’s arrest.

Kennedy, a graduate of Nauset Regional High School in North Eastham and a resident of Brooklyn, New York, and Brewster, was one of 21 men arrested in the five-day “Operation Interception” sting by state and local police in Georgia that was conducted in part because Super Bowl LIII is the type of large event that encourages instances of child sex trafficking and prostitution, according to Georgia state police. Kennedy turned himself in the morning of Feb. 3 at the Brookhaven, Georgia, police station, accompanied by family members, according to police.

Kennedy’s mother, Patricia Kennedy, of Brewster, has maintained that her son is innocent and got caught up by accident in a larger police operation. “Mitchell did nothing wrong,” she said in an interview with the Times in early March. “He never left the hotel.”

She did not respond to a request for further comment Wednesday.

Kennedy’s parents, Thomas and Patricia, and their software company Zudy are prominent sponsors of the New England Patriots, whose team members were staying at the Atlanta hotel where Kennedy is alleged to have communicated with the undercover policewoman via the Skout dating app.

Locally, Kennedy is also implicated in an early morning car crash March 3 where his vehicle left the road at Route 137 and Villages Drive in Brewster and hit a tree. Police found an empty vehicle with multiple airbags deployed and significant front-end damage but no driver present. Officers searched the area but were not able to find the driver. Kennedy’s mother identified him to the Times as the driver.

Kennedy was issued a citation for two traffic violations and a criminal charge of leaving the scene of a crash. He is expected to appear at a magistrate hearing in Orleans District Court, according to Brewster police.

In the Atlanta incident, police allege that Kennedy made contact with the undercover police “chatter” at 5:11 p.m. Feb. 2 on Skout, according to the Brookhaven police report. During the Skout chat, the officer made it known to Kennedy that he was speaking to a 14-year-old, and Kennedy asked her to delete her messages so they would not get in trouble, the report states.

After the officer established rapport with Kennedy, he brought up a reference to sex and said he would be willing to meet and provide alcohol and marijuana, the report says. The report includes three explicit comments about sex that Kennedy is alleged to have made during the Skout chat.

Kennedy then sent several photographs of himself to the female and called with his cellphone, the report states. During the phone conversation, it appeared that Kennedy was masturbating, the report says. After the “girl” suggested they could meet in Brookhaven, Kennedy said he was staying at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Atlanta and would order an Uber ride to bring her to the hotel, according to the report.

Later that evening, police obtained an arrest warrant for Kennedy on a charge of computer pornography. The next day, the day of the Super Bowl, Kennedy arrived with family members at 10:45 a.m. at the Brookhaven police station to turn himself in and declined to speak to officers without an attorney, according to the report. He told police he did not have his cellphone with him at that time.

Kennedy was booked at the Dekalb County Sheriff’s Office in Decatur, Georgia, and released on $11,500 bail, according to a sheriff’s office spokeswoman.

The victim in the Atlanta case involving Kennedy is listed as “society” in the police report.

A request for comment from a Skout company representative Thursday drew no response. The company says on its Facebook page that it has been connecting people since 2007 “from across the globe or down the block to explore and embark on adventures together.” Popular features such as Chat, Meet, Interested and Buzz help users discover new friends, according to the company.

The 60-member undercover police operation from Jan. 30 to Feb. 2, in which Brookhaven police helped a statewide Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, was part of an ongoing effort to identify people engaged in the trafficking of people for labor or sexual servitude, according to Debbie Garner, head of the task force and a special agent in charge of child exploitation and computer crimes with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

The choice of Brookhaven, a city northeast of Atlanta, for the sting was due in part to the availability of staff from that city’s police department and the proximity to the Super Bowl stadium, Garner said. Child sex trafficking and prostitution increase during major events such as the Super Bowl, she said.

Teens who are 16 and 17 and already involved in that way of life are brought to Atlanta, Garner said.

The undercover police “chatters” pose as minors and juveniles under 18 on several dating sites, and the chatters are solicited via these sites for sexual servitude, exploitation of children and human trafficking.

A spokeswoman for the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office said no arraignment has been scheduled. source

BROOKHAVEN, Ga. (CBS46) – Twenty-one people have been arrested over a five-day period beginning Wednesday, January 30, 2019 as a result of “Operation Interception.

The goal of “Operation Interception” was to arrest persons who communicate with children on-line, have sexually explicit conversations, and then travel to meet them for the purpose of having sex.

“Operation Interception” was centered in Brookhaven. The operation took several months of planning. Most of the arrestees, ranging in age from 20 to 55, traveled from areas around metropolitan Atlanta with the intent to meet a child for sex. 

Additionally, the operation targeted those who are willing to exploit children by purchasing sex with a minor. On-line child predators visit chat rooms and websites on the internet, find children, begin conversations with them, introduce sexual content and ultimately arrange a meeting with the children for the purpose of having sex.

The following were arrested and charged in DeKalb County as part of “Operation Interception”:

• Nicholas Alexander Bowen
• Thomas Cheung
• Jeshua Elijah Collins
• James Tunde Fadeyi
• Walter Gonzalez-Amaya
• Larry Allen Gordon
• Zachary Tye Gourdine
• Dylan Michael Graham
• Richard Jason Hyder
• Mitchell Allen Kennedy
• Raheem Lalani
• Marco A. Mendoza-Escalante
• Darwin Menjivar-Fernandez
• Juan Valencia-Patino
• Juan Manuel Sanchez
• Junior Cornelius Timoteus
• Oscar Ramirez
• Dylan Golding Whynot
• Kyle A. Williams
• Robert Tyler Wilson
• Tarno M. Walters

The children these predators target are both boys and girls. Since 2014, the Georgia ICAC Task Force has arrested over 130 people in similar operations. 

Game Company Hi-Rez Studios, where Thomas Cheung worked, released a statement on Twitter following Cheung’s arrest.

“On Monday, February 4th, we learned through local news that Thomas Cheung was arrested in an operation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigations. At this point, we know only what has been reported in the local news and by local law enforcement, and cannot comment on specifics of Mr. Cheung’s case, other than to say that, as of today, Mr. Cheung is no longer employed by Hi-Rez Studios. As a parent, it is difficult to imagine more disturbing allegations than those laid out in the news reports. We commend the efforts of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations and other law enforcement to protect our state’s children and to send a strong message that the behavior targeted in their Operations Interception will not be tolerated in Georgia.”View image on Twitter

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